We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.